OKX

OKX is a prominent global cryptocurrency exchange, recognized as the second largest by trading volume and a key player in the Web3 ecosystem. The platform serves over 50 million users worldwide and provides a secure, efficient environment for trading more than 350 tokens with over 100 local currencies. OKX offers a robust trading app tailored for professional traders, featuring tools that allow users to replicate the strategies of top industry traders with ease. Additionally, the OKX Wallet empowers users to manage their crypto, NFTs, and digital assets effectively. With a strong commitment to innovation and transparency, exemplified by its monthly Proof of Reserve releases, OKX envisions a future where blockchain technology enhances financial access and the potential of decentralized finance.

Jay Hao

CEO

Star Xu

Founder

Past deals in Ethereum

0G Labs

Seed Round in 2024
0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues.

Corn

Venture Round in 2024
Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.

Rage Trade

Seed Round in 2024
Rage Trade operates a decentralized trading protocol on the Ethereum and Arbitrum mainnets, focusing on double-legged trading. This platform enables users to engage in eternal swaps of ETH with leverage of up to 10 times. By addressing liquidity challenges commonly encountered in perpetual trading, Rage Trade provides a yield-farming product that allows users to earn additional returns from trading fees. The protocol employs a mechanism designed to maintain a neutral position amid asset price fluctuations, facilitating the use of liquidity provider tokens from other protocols as liquidity for perpetual traders. Through various vault strategies, Rage Trade aims to recycle underutilized tokens, thereby enhancing overall liquidity in the market.

Lont Game

Seed Round in 2024
As the digital finance sector is undergoing rapid changes, the development of BRC20 has brought new vitality to crypto assets amidst a multitude of competing standards.The BRC20 token standard ushers in a new era of development in the digital finance field. As a universal token encoding standard, BRC20 has immense potential in promoting the interoperability and liquidity of digital assets. The standardized protocol it adopts provides developers with more flexibility, allowing projects to integrate and blend into the diverse ecosystem of the digital economy more easily. As more and more projects choose BRC20, we look forward to witnessing its leading role in digital financial innovation.

StakeStone

Seed Round in 2024
StakeStone is the best yield-bearing ETH with a decentralized yield optimizing service ready for mass adoption on layer2s.

DLC.Link

Seed Round in 2024
Bitcoin has proven itself as a store of value. But to earn yield on their Bitcoin, users have to first send it to a centralized custodian. This is extremely risky, as over $40Bn has been lost to date due to custodial hacks and failures. The DLC.link platform lets users lock their Bitcoin in escrow, directly in their wallet. Users can supply their Bitcoin as collateral and earn a yield while maintaining full ownership. Currently only 2% of Bitcoin is utilized. Escrow will unlock the remaining 98%, making over $1 Trillion in Bitcoin liquidity available for lending on Ethereum and other blockchains.

Eclipse

Series A in 2024
Eclipse is building Ethereum's first Solana Virtual Machine Layer 2. While other L2 networks on Ethereum focus on providing Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility, Eclipse leans into performance improvements developed by the Solana Layer 1 and adds additional verification features to deploy the blockchain as a rollup. The Eclipse team includes veterans from dYdX, Uniswap, Citadel, and Airbnb. Eclipse Labs is backed by top investors including Polychain, Placeholder, and DBA.

ether.fi

Series A in 2024
EtherFi is a company that offers a decentralized and non-custodial Ethereum staking solution. Its platform allows users to maintain control of their keys while delegating staking responsibilities to node operators in exchange for rewards. This approach ensures that investors retain ownership of their keys in a secure location, independent of the node operators. EtherFi's innovative software facilitates a transparent and secure staking process, empowering users to participate in Ethereum staking without relinquishing control of their assets.

Merlin Chain

Seed Round in 2024
Merlin Chain offers a native scaling solution.

Orbiter Finance

Series A in 2024
Orbiter Finance operates a decentralized cross-rollup bridge platform designed to facilitate the transfer of blockchain-native assets. The company focuses on enabling cross-Layer 2 (L2) composability, allowing users to customize transfer types, quantities, and environments. Through its innovative technology, Orbiter Finance supports the development of decentralized applications that leverage cross-environment capabilities, thus providing clients with decentralized liquidity solutions. Additionally, the company is advancing its product offerings by incorporating zero-knowledge (ZK) technology, enhancing privacy and security in asset transfers. By eliminating the need for minting assets, Orbiter Finance streamlines the process for users, positioning itself at the forefront of blockchain interoperability solutions.

Renzo

Seed Round in 2024
Renzo operates a liquid restaking protocol within the EigenLayer ecosystem, designed to enhance yield generation for users participating in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. By allowing clients to restake both native ether and liquid re-staking tokens, Renzo provides an opportunity to earn rewards that exceed traditional ether staking yields. This third-generation platform focuses on securing Actively Validated Services (AVSs), offering a more efficient and profitable staking experience for its users.

Kakarot

Seed Round in 2023
Kakarot is a developer of a blockchain virtual machine focused on enhancing the scalability of the Ethereum ecosystem through its zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) written in Cairo. The platform utilizes layer two scaling technology, specifically validity rollups, to improve transaction efficiency while ensuring compatibility with existing Ethereum applications. By leveraging stark proofs, Kakarot facilitates provable transactions and blocks, allowing developers to execute smart contracts with a high level of transparency and security. This innovative approach positions Kakarot as a significant contributor to the ongoing evolution of blockchain technology.

dappOS

Seed Round in 2023
dappOS is a company focused on improving the usability and accessibility of decentralized applications (dApps) and blockchain technology. It develops an operating protocol that simplifies interactions between users and various crypto infrastructures, including public blockchains and cross-chain bridges. By creating intuitive user interfaces and streamlining the user experience, dappOS aims to make dApps as user-friendly as mobile applications. The company's goal is to lower technical barriers, enabling a wider audience to engage with decentralized applications and facilitating mass adoption within a more interconnected blockchain ecosystem.

Ethena

Seed Round in 2023
Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.

Shutter Network

Venture Round in 2023
Shutter Network is a technology agency that deals in Preventing front-running and malicious MEV on Ethereum.

HUG

Seed Round in 2023
HUG is a social marketplace that links artists with current and prospective collectors by allowing them to sell digital and tangible goods. HUG highlights various creators, including and especially those from underprivileged and marginalised populations, through a community-driven, decentralised selection process, it offers educational and advisory programs for Web3 startup founders and creative entrepreneurs.

Scroll.io

Venture Round in 2023
Scroll.io provides a native zkEVM scaling solution for Ethereum. The company upholds the Ethereum network's high-security features while offering users nearly instantaneous, inexpensive transactions.

SSV Network

Venture Round in 2022
SSV Network develops a distributed validator technology designed for ETH staking.

Clover Finance

Funding Round in 2022
Clover Finance (CLV), or simply Clover, is a blockchain operating system. It provides a one-stop, easy‑to‑use blockchain infrastructure and an ethereum virtual machine (EVM) compatible framework for Substrate‑based applications. Clover Finance, another offspring of the Substrate-based Polkadot parachain aims at bridging the compatibility gap when building and operating across blockchains. The project was founded in May 2020 and the mainnet of Clover Finance launched in July 2021.

Ertha

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Ertha is a play-to-earn platform that offers a real-world simulation game where players can engage in various activities such as securing jobs, forming states, building industries, and even waging wars. The platform is built on the Binance smart chain, providing a governance model that generates continuous revenue growth as players gain experience. This model allows dedicated gamers to increase their ownership of properties within the game's metaverse, blending entertainment with opportunities for financial investment. Through its sophisticated mechanics, Ertha aims to create an engaging environment that mirrors real-world complexities.

Domination Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Domination Finance is a developer of a non-custodial financial instrument that allows traders to speculate on market dominance metrics within the cryptocurrency sector. Its platform operates as an Ethereum application and is built on the UMA protocol, enabling users to take long or short positions on Bitcoin Dominance. Additionally, the platform is accessible on Polygon and Boba networks, providing a versatile trading environment. By offering synthetic tokens tied to market dominance, Domination Finance facilitates innovative trading strategies for participants in the cryptocurrency market.

Connext

Series A in 2021
Connext, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017 by Arjun Bhuptani, Layne Haber, and Rahul Sethuram. The company specializes in developing software that facilitates the purchase and management of blockchain applications. It offers features such as direct card purchases for tokens, access to existing vaults, decentralized compliance, and walletless signature capabilities. Additionally, Connext operates as an interoperability protocol, enabling fast and trustless communication between different blockchains. This innovation supports the creation of a more interconnected blockchain ecosystem.

Gitcoin

Venture Round in 2021
Gitcoin is a platform designed to help open source developers monetize their work by facilitating payments when their contributions are utilized. Established in 2017 and based in Boulder, Colorado, Gitcoin leverages the Ethereum network and smart contracts to align the interests of various stakeholders within the ecosystem. This innovative approach allows for direct programming of rights, incentivizing participants to deliver value while minimizing reliance on traditional legal mechanisms. The platform supports a range of programming languages, including Python, Rust, Ruby, JavaScript, and Solidity, fostering collaboration among developers and project maintainers. Gitcoin embodies the #givefirst philosophy of the Boulder tech community, which emphasizes mutual support and collaboration, thereby strengthening both the community and the open source projects it nurtures. Through its services, Gitcoin aims to enhance the sustainability and growth of open source software development.

ChainSwap

Venture Round in 2021
ChainSwap is a cross-chain asset bridge & application hub for smart chains. ChainSwap allows projects to seamlessly bridge between ETH, BSC, and HECO.

DeversiFi

DeversiFi gives traders the edge in fast-moving decentralized finance (Defi) markets by allowing them to trade at lightning speed and with deep aggregated liquidity, directly from their privately owned cryptocurrency wallet. Traders can take advantage of more trading opportunities while always preserving control of their assets when they need to move fast. DeversiFi’s order-books are off-chain, but settlement occurs on the Ethereum blockchain. This means that traders benefit from fast-moving order books and instant execution, without having to trust the exchange and whilst always maintaining control of their assets at all times.
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